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Albert Parker enjoyed success as a director over the course of his Hollywood career, owed mainly to a vast supply of imagination and a fierce attention to detail. Parker received his start directing films, including work on "Arizona" (1918) and "The Eyes of Youth" (1919). "The Knickerbocker Buckaroo" (1919), "The Branded Woman" (1920) and "Sherlock Holmes" (1922). He also appeare...

Filmography

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Murder in the Family (1938)

Troubled Waters (1936)

Blind Man's Bluff (1936)

Late Extra (1935)

Follow the Leader (1930)

Dialogue Director

The Love of Sunya (1927)

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Black Pirate, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Even On This Dark Soil

Black Pirate, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) I Would Join Your Company!

Biography

Albert Parker enjoyed success as a director over the course of his Hollywood career, owed mainly to a vast supply of imagination and a fierce attention to detail. Parker received his start directing films, including work on "Arizona" (1918) and "The Eyes of Youth" (1919). "The Knickerbocker Buckaroo" (1919), "The Branded Woman" (1920) and "Sherlock Holmes" (1922). He also appeared in the Douglas Fairbanks adventure "The Black Pirate" (1926). followed in those yearsLater in his career, Parker directed "The Love of Sunya" (1927). Parker passed away in August 1974 at the age of 89.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Murder in the Family (1938)

Troubled Waters (1936)

Blind Man's Bluff (1936)

Late Extra (1935)

Follow the Leader (1930)

Dialogue Director

The Love of Sunya (1927)

The Black Pirate (1926)

Second Youth (1924)

The Rejected Woman (1924)

Sherlock Holmes (1922)

Love's Redemption (1921)

The Branded Woman (1920)

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (1919)

Eyes of Youth (1919)

The Other Woman (1918)

Secret Code (1918)

Annexing Bill (1918)

Shifting Sands (1918)

From Two to Six (1918)

Sic 'em Sam! (1918)

The Man Hater (1917)

Her Excellency, the Governor (1917)

For Valour (1917)

The Food Gamblers (1917)

The Haunted House (1917)

Cast (Feature Film)

In Again--Out Again (1917)

The Haunted House (1917)

American Aristocracy (1916)

Writer (Feature Film)

The Branded Woman (1920)

Eyes of Youth (1919)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

Life Events

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Black Pirate, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Even On This Dark Soil Writer, producer and star Douglas Fairbanks doesn’t appear in the opening, as we join the prologue, pirates looting a taken ship, with general and specific callous acts of murder, Anders Randolf their captain, in the third feature made with two-strip Technicolor, from United Artists, The Black Pirate, 1926.

Black Pirate, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) I Would Join Your Company! The pirates (Anders Randolf the leader, Donald Crisp their second) who took the ship on which he traveled have appeared on the island where survivor Douglas Fairbanks (the co-writer, producer and star) has just buried, and sworn to avenge, his father, launching his infiltration scheme, in The Black Pirate, 1926.

Black Pirate, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Single-Handed Undertaking a test he proposed, in order to gain membership to the pirate band that murdered his father, Douglas Fairbanks (title character) begins the work of taking the “next ship you pick” single-handed, with some famous stunts, in The Black Pirate, 1926.

Sherlock Holmes (1922) -- (Movie Clip) Moriarty, Genius Of Evil Opening and a rarity, though screen depictions of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective were already common, few have begun by introducing the villain Moriarty (Gustav Von Seyffertitz), with impressive London location shots, in the landmark John Barrymore version of Sherlock Holmes, 1922.

Sherlock Holmes (1922) -- (Movie Clip) He's A Fiend John Barrymore in the title role, according to the screen story still a Cambridge student, pursues Wells (one William Powell) who, though a thief, we soon discover is in the thrall of the evil Moriarty (Gustav von Seyffertitz), early in Sherlock Holmes, 1922.

Sherlock Holmes (1922) -- (Movie Clip) The Future Detective Introduction of the star and title character (John Barrymore) in idyllic setting, also his love interest (Carol Dempster), though not by his initiative, in the 1922 version of Sherlock Holmes, from the celebrated play written by and starring William Gillette.

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